Dirty Girl Mud Run

May 2012 - one of our many escapades to Montage Mountain, this time to do the Dirty Girl Mud Run together.   Dawn was a little over a year out from her last kidney transplant and she "wasn't supposed to do" activities of this nature.  We most certainly know she never let a little thing like that hold her back from ANYTHING.

We had a blast, we laughed, we ran, we climbed, we jumped, we fell down.  I remember watching Dawn step carefully through a very large lake of mud, she was trying to step so gingerly.  So of course I got a running start and tackled her straight into the giant pool of mud.  After an exclamation of "Dude, seriously?!" we both cracked up and just laid there in the mud laughing.

Your Dress

Today I hung up your dress in my closet.  Not because I ever plan on wearing it.  But because I have so many memories of you associated with it, and I just couldn't bear to pack this one up.  I think of you every day, love you.

"Yeah, so I'm pregnant"

This photo was taken right after I told Dawn, Kristen, and Sunita that I was pregnant with Zoey.  We had gotten ice cream and were chit chatting when I casually said "Yeah, so I'm pregnant".  And there was much rejoicing.  :)

Dawn Did Not Like Carrots

Anyone who remotely knew Dawn knew that carrots were her nemesis.  She was not a fan of many vegetables, but carrots were particularly egregious.

She ended up with some variety of carrot in her food at Kristen's tea party bridal shower, maybe carrot cake?  Carrot muffin?  I can't remember.  Kristen or Sunita, do you recall?  But I distinctly remember this face afterwards:

As a side note, that's my shirt she has on.  I remember us going through our closets trying to find something to wear.  We had similar tastes and used to swap shirts a lot.

No Words Needed

Because BFFs can say plenty without saying a word at all:

Cat in a Sweater Card

How awesome is our friendship?  Awesome enough that Kristen and I both got Dawn the same weird cat-in-a-sweater birthday card one year that read "I was afraid you wouldn't get a card with a picture of a cat in a sweater on it".  We knew our Dawn-Nicole all too well.